单词 | accumbing |
释义 | † accumbingn. Obsolete. The practice of reclining, esp. at a table when dining; accubation.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun] > at table accubation1612 accumbing1646 accumbency1658 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 241 Now of their accumbing places, the one was called Stibadion and Sigma, carrying the figure of an halfe Moone, and of an uncertaine capacity. View more context for this quotation 1796 J. Hey Lect. Divinity I. xi. viii. 82 Wheatly says, accumbing ‘was the Table-gesture among those Nations’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1646 |
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